A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page letter by Kathleen Dahl, a registered nurse and Freedom Summer volunteer in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She writes on behalf of Charles T. Scales, an African-American volunteer and native...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Kenneth Dean to Robert Nash dated April 4, 1967, in which Dean voices his concerns about the continued racial violence and discrimination in Mississippi. Dean describes an incident...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page personal account by Rita Walker, an African-American civil rights worker from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Walker writes about being mistreated by the white doctor and white nurses near...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. End of summer report by Kathy Dahl written for the Medical Committee for Human Rights. The first half outlines basic medical care conditions for African Americans in the Holly Springs area; the...
Oral history.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR)" Gives background information about the program and describes its goals, which include...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An assessment of statistics on education, housing, income and employment, and health care issues in the southern United States during the 1960s, with special emphasis on Mississippi. The...
